Scott Adkins punches his way through 18th-century London's most notorious madhouse — and the asylum's not even the craziest part.
A fiery street boxer infiltrates London’s infamous Bedlam asylum to rescue his imprisoned sister, unleashing chaos in a brutal underworld of cage fights, corruption, and revenge.
Stunts
Adkins' authentic boxing style adapted for Georgian-era brutality.
Production
Bedlam recreated as visceral hellscape, not haunted house cliché.
Costume
Street fighter rags vs. asylumkeeper finery — class made visible.
Director
Jon Shaikh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bedlam (Bethlem Royal Hospital) was tourist attraction in 18th century — Londoners paid to gawk at patients. The film weaponizes this voyeurism as thematic engine.
Ritchie Neville (Allen) was in 90s boyband Five; casting him as vicious asylum enforcer is delicious irony. Peter Serafinowicz reportedly researched actual asylum keeper records to find Cumberland's particular brand of paternalistic cruelty.
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